Kirsty MacLauchlan: Week 4: This is not my final but a following idea from my development. As it is getting closer to the October break it is time to finalise...
Looking at a fellow class mate her life drawings are, really nice. check em out :)...
Thursday, 29 November 2012
My Critique Review...
Art is still very much alive
I am going to talk about article written by Camille Paglia, titled “How capitalism can save art”. From the Wall Street Journal, dated Friday 5th of Oct 2012. This is from a liberal democrat point of view which the author clearly states.
The Author talks about how the visual arts are diminishing in a world dominated with design technology. Artists cling onto shock factor ideas, with no depth.
Paglia has intended to make us aware of economic shifts of the past century and how this has disengaged students from learning practical trades. She proposes a solution that artists evolve with business minded intentions. Talking of design and how it has overshadowed the arts, with a world of commodity’s and shiny technology.
She then wraps this up with “Thus we live in a strange and contradictory culture”. Stating that the younger generations are very materialistic minded rather than spiritually minded.
Paglia talks of how “industrial design has steadily gained on the fine arts and has now surpassed them in a cultural impact”. This is very true all around us we are constantly “immersed in this hyper-technological environment”. This is apparent of today’s world, at least the most part of it, where would humanity be without all of these objects? We as a society very influenced in a methodological way. Are we being diverted from our true intuitive energies? Or are we evolving into a cyber human race?
“The spiritual Language even of major abstract artists like Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothgo have been suppressed”.
We have artists out there that have captured the media, through their use of art as a public diary and their shock arts. Unfortunately these have overshadowed artist with much more talent.
“Unfortunately to many artists have lost touch with the general audience and have retreated to an airless echo chamber”.
Yes most of a mainstream audience don’t understand what contemporary art is. Isn't that what art is supposed to do? What would be the point of it if art didn't make it’s viewers think? Each individual person has a separate perception, thus an individual experience also. “Its high time for the art world to admit that the advant-garde is dead”. From the days of pop art, when Paglia’s hero Andy Warhol incorporated commercialism into art, followed on minimalism and postmodernism. With that there was the birth of the celebrity Artist, entrepreneur artist.
This is where art seems to lose it’s value at a glance but if you look into it more that is not the case at all. As I said before the people out there with real talent are overshadowed by those that have latched on to fame and riches. As a result of all this in the 90’s a new movement was created, “Stuckism” This movement was derived by group of artist’s, who broke away from the mainstream art scene in Britain. This movement is about getting back the integrity of Art.
Paglia’s article is very informative and it gets the reader thinking about the impact of capitalism, whether it is a good one or not. Although she could have looked at the bigger picture instead of just at her students and not the veiw out her window. Her proposal that all artist become entrepreneurs may be good from a commercial point of view but not from an artistic point of view. As at the end of the day the visual arts are not about materialism but more about spiritualism, if you look all around you can see that the Avant Garde is still very much alive.
Refs:05/10/2012,Paglia Camille, “How Capitalism Can Save Art”. Wall Street Journal
<http://www.stuckism.com/info.html>
<http://www.stuckism.com/#HirstStole>
Monday, 26 November 2012
Anatomy Abstracted continued......
After drawing out my knee in many colors and ways I came up with idea's for my final piece.
I sectioned off parts of my drawings and blew them up into larger compositions.
After drawing up in thumbnails I then sectioned off an A2 sheet of card into 4 parts.
This is the outcome below....
For each section I prepared a surface to draw on, this one was crushed tissue paper painted with emulsion.
I used pro markers and oil pastels in this drawing. The creases showing through the drawing from the surface is very effective. I chose the color be mainly browns and greens giving it an organic feel.
This was my monochromatic drawing, my surface was newspaper print and emulsion. This has a more mechanical feel to it, due to the color theme.
Some aspects of the surface has also shone through this which has added affect to the finish drawing. It was done with Charcoal, white chalk and pro markers.
For this composition I painted thick, emulsion, which has given it a different texture to draw on. I chose to use ink and oil pastels which is a new one for me. Watering the ink down, painting it over oil pastels, scratching into it. I also used a dud pencil to draw the initial lines and scribble over various areas.
I used these mediums in my A2 drawing as I liked the affect so much.
This Piece was Chalks, I applied pro marker to define some of my lines. The surface I prepared was masking tape and emulsion. I chose bright contrasting colors and blended them together in some parts and kept other parts separated.
The above is my A2 drawing which I drew using inks and oil pastels, I also prepared the surface with emulsion. I feel I abstracted my anatomy drawings well. Using techniques I'm comfortable with and also experimenting with things I hadn't used before. If I wanted I could then go on to create prints or sculptures from these drawings. Which I may do in my specialist at some point depending on where my research takes me.
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Anatomy Abstract is what comes to mind.....
I have chosen to look at the anatomy for my drawing studies, with a twist as I love playing with shapes and color and form. So far I have drawn a sketch in fine liner of the skull of the skeleton in the studio, I have drawn two sketches of images from my anatomy book.
Here are my sketches......
I have made copies of my sketches so I can work into them with a range of different drawing materials, to see how I can abstract them. I found this one above interesting as it could become many things, like strange building or world, factory or machine of some kind. No matter how I go about it each viewer will perceive it differently, that's what I love about abstracting things.
Here are my sketches......
The front of a Knee without the cap.
I found this image inspiring, I think I can incorporate this into an abstract drawing.
Below is an enlarged fully grown bone, showing the microscopic cells and tissues.
Above is the sketch of the College skeleton I done in studio time, fine liner.
I enjoyed scribbling it done on the page loosely. The more I built up on it the more it became detail and came together.
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